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Historical Writing
Thayer, William Roscoe | July 8, 1915 issue

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The periodical Nation's half-century of vigorous existence bridges what is popularly regarded as a complete transformation in the principles, which govern the writing of history. In 1865 the doctrine of evolution had taken hold of the younger historians as a gospel to be followed joyously, trustfully, triumphantly. Almost every other field of intellectual activity was being cultivated by the "scientific method." Historian Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, with his wonderfully clarified gift of exposition, had popularized the idea that the history of the fine arts or of literature, of institutions and of religions, could be explained by the formula of development, which ran its inevitable circuit in each from, birth to death.

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AUTHORSHIP; NATION, The (Periodical); TAINE, Hippolyte; HISTORIANS; STYLE, Literary; ART; LITERATURE
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